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Description: People have shaped the landscapes around them since prehistoric times, creating places as diverse in form and meaning as Stonehenge, the Forbidden City, Versailles, and Central Park. This book surveys the history of landscape design.

People have shaped the landscapes around them since prehistoric times, creating places as diverse in form and meaning as Stonehenge, the Forbidden City, Versailles, and Central Park. This book surveys the history of landscape design.

Foreword

Introduction: The Shaping of Space; the Meaning of Place

Magic, Myth, and Nature: Landscapes of Prehistoric, Early Ancient, and Contemporary Peoples

Caves and Circles: Sustaining Life and Discerning Cosmic Order

Architectural Mountains and the Earth's First Cities: Landscape as Urban Power in Early Ancient Civilizations

Ritual and Landscape in Prehistoric Greece: Earth Goddess and the Mighty Lords

Cosmology in the Landscapes of the Americas: Spirits of Earth and Sky

Nature, Art, and Reason: Landscape Design in the Classical World

Gods and Humans: The New Contract with Nature

Polis and Acropolis: City and Temple in the Greek Landscape

Empire: Hellenism and Roman Urbanism

Garden and Villa: The Art of Landscape in Ancient Rome

Visions of Paradise: Landscape Design as Symbol and Metaphor

Paradise as a Literary Topos: Gardens of God and Gardens of Love

Paradise on Earth: The Islamic Garden

Paradise Contained: Walled Cities and Walled Gardens of the European Middle Ages

Classicism Reborn: Landscape Ideals of the Renaissance in Italy and France

Petrarch, Alberti, and Colonna: Humanism and the Landscape

Bramante and the Rediscovery of Axial Planning: Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Italy

Axial Planning on an Urban Scale: The Development of Renaissance Rome

Currents of Fashion: The Transformation of the Italian Garden in France

The Evolution of French Urbanization and Garden Style: Paris in the Time of Henry IV

Power and Glory: The Genius of Le Notre and the Grandeur of the Baroque

The Making of Vaux-le-Vicomte and Versailles: Andre Le Notre

The Garden as Theater: Italian Baroque and Rococo Gardens

Expanding Horizons: Court and City in the European Grand Manner

French and Italian Exports: The Application of Classical and Baroque Design Principles to Gardens in the Netherlands, England, Germany, and Beyond

The Heroic City: Expressions of Classical and Baroque Urbanism

Nature's Paradise: America in the Colonial and Federal Periods

Sense and Sensibility: Landscapes of the Age of Reason, Romanticism, and Revolution

The Genius of the Place: Forging a New Landscape Style Through Literature, Art, and Theory

Leaping the Fence: The Transformation of the English Landscape into a Pastoral Idyll with Political Meaning

Remaking England: Capability Brown, Professional Improver

Nature's Canvas: English Philosophers and Practitioners of the Picturesque

Landscapes of Moral Virtue and Exotic Fantasy: The French Picturesque

Designing Nature's Garden: The Landscapes of Thomas Jefferson

The Landscape of Mind and Soul: Goethe and Wordsworth

Nature as Muse: The Gardens of China and Japan

Mountains, Lakes, and Islands: Intimations of Immortality in the Chinese Garden

Tea, Moss, and Stones: Temple and Palace Gardens of Japan

Expanding Cities and New Social Institutions: The Democratization of Landscape Design

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